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Monitoring & Observability Checklist

Comprehensive checklist for implementing monitoring, logging, tracing, and alerting across your infrastructure and applications.

60-90 minutes
11 items
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Define SLIs, SLOs, and SLAs

Critical

Implement structured logging

Critical

Instrument applications with metrics

Critical

Implement distributed tracing

Critical

Set up centralized log aggregation

Critical

Create monitoring dashboards

Configure meaningful alerts

Critical

Monitor infrastructure resources

Correlate logs, metrics, and traces

Implement anomaly detection

Set up synthetic monitoring